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5th Floor Common Room: Monday Night [8-5-11]

Mercy was in a bit of a grumpy mood after having unsuccessfully attempted to avoid her mother's phone calls over the weekend. She really hadn't been in the mood to deal with Margi's interrogation about school or the guilt trip over not agreeing to go on their yearly summer vacation this summer.

She'd been polite and well-behaved and taken everything without complaint, since she'd already caused the family enough trouble. Still now, all she wanted was mindless television and spicy Chinese food - lots of it.

There was more Chinese food than you could shake a stick at and a choice of two police procedurals that she kept switching between. She couldn't decide if she liked the older silver haired man or the gorgeous bald black man better.

[OOC: Oh so very open!]

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"Oh?" Rapunzel set her fork down, food instantly forgotten as she leaned forward to focus on Mercy. "What happened?" Was there anything she could do to help?

Mercy looked down. "Just a bad phone call with my mom."

"Oh. I'm sorry." Rapunzel reached forward to put a hand on Mercy's shoulder, then paused, hand frozen in the air between them. Unsure that Mercy would appreciate a touch.

But then she thought about those times she and mother had a discussion that ended on a bad note, and her hand moved forward again.

Mercy wasn't really used to that, but it felt nice. She smiled up at Rapunzel. "Thanks. My mom's great, you know? It's just... things have been rough lately."

Rapunzel nodded in understanding. "I'm sorry," she said again. "Do you-- Do you want to talk about it?" Rapunzel was a good listener!

Mercy sighed. "My mom kind of gave me up when I was a baby - for my own good. I saw her in the summers for a week or so most years. So... stuff happened and I had to move back to her house a while ago. Except when I got there I found out she hadn't thought to mention she'd gotten married like 13 years ago and had two other kids."

"And she hadn't bothered to tell them about me."

"Oh." Rapunzel frowned slightly. She may have been a good listener, but she was quickly coming to realize that her lack of experience with, well, almost anything meant that she didn't know what to say most of the time.

"That sounds very stressful." Somehow she managed not to wince at saying something so inane. She wished she had something useful to offer!

Mercy shrugged. "It is what it is. I've just been kind of trying to avoid her, now that I'm here, and... today I couldn't."

Rapunzel's hand tightened slightly on Mercy's shoulder. She didn't want to say something else stupid, but she wanted to offer her new friend something. It would be a poor way to repay the Chinese food to just walk away. Or not do anything.

Meryc smiled up at Rapunzel a little sadly. "Sorry. Didn't mean to be depressing. We should go back to the Chinese food."

"You're sure?" Rapunzel wasn't going to object. After all, Chinese food was very good! But if Mercy needed to talk about things, or... well, or do something, that was fine, too!

Her hesitance was pretty obvious, and prompted Pascal to scamper down her arm toward Mercy's shoulder. Then he spun on Rapunzel's wrist and gave her a look. It seemed to say no more being depressed!.

Then he glanced over his shoulder at Mercy and gave a slow, serious nod.

Mercy nodded. "Yeah. And you can help me decide which guy on these shows is cuter."

She wasn't quite sure what to make of Pascal and his nod, so she just nodded back and gave him a small smile.

Her nod in return was apparently satisfactory because Pascal nodded again and scampered back up Rapunzel's arm.

Meanwhile, Rapunzel herself grinned sheepishly at Mercy. "I don't know. I'm not very good at that kind of thing." But she was willing to try! And maybe learn!

Mercy smiled at her again. "Okay, put some more food on that plate and come sit down."

She pointed out one of the guys. "See there, the handsome gruff silver haired guy? It's between him and... hang on..." She flipped back to the other show. "Um... oh, there he is. The gorgeous bald black guy. What do you think?"

Rapunzel obediently loaded her plate up with more food and moved to sit down near Mercy.

"What is the criteria that we are judging them on?" she asked, food sitting in her lap mostly forgotten as she concentrated on the television.

"Just whoever you think is more attractive - personality and looks, the whole package. You'll have to watch some of both to get a sense of who they really are." Mercy shrugged. "It's all subjective, what appeals to one person may not to another. You might prefer the kind of geeky computer guy, who knows?"

Rapunzel's lips pursed up in concentration. "I don't know," she admitted. "How long do you think it will take me to figure it out?"

She was kind of knew to this 'guys' thing.

Mercy shrugged again. "I don't know. But we've got all night."

She smiled over at Rapunzel. "We'll figure it out."

[ooc: And I must to bed! SP?]

"Oh, that's true!" Rapunzel almost clapped her hands in delight at the observation, but remembered that she still had a fork at the last minute and managed to restrain herself.

[ooc: Of course! Sleep well!]

Mercy grinned at her. "I have to say that I tend a bit towards the strong silent types myself. Though I like them to have a sense of humor."

"Strong silent types," Rapunzel repeated in the tone of someone making a mental note. She didn't need to ask about what that meant since it was pretty self-explanatory.

Instead she thought for a minute and asked a different question. "Are there other types that lots of people like?"

"Sure," Mercy said easily. "Some girls are attracted to bad boys, some like the class clown or someone who seems dangerous."

She shrugged. "There are as many types as there are people, I guess."

"But there have to be some similarities," Rapunzel pointed out. "Otherwise you wouldn't have types at all!"

"I think I misspoke," Mercy said. "I meant as many types that people were attracted to as there were types of people."

"Oh!" Rapunzel nodded quickly. "That totally makes sense!"

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